Unmet dependencies when installing openjdk 7 on arm v7 running ubuntu

Question

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openjdk-7-jdk : Depends: openjdk-7-jre (>= 7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-1ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: libxt-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

sources

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ precise main universe deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ precise main universe

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 23 '14 at 08:02

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Finally figured out the solution by hit and trial. In /etc/apt/sources.list replaced precise with trusty and everything works. Now am able to install the openjdk-7-jdk package.

After changing it, /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this.

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty main universe
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty main universe

edited Jul 23 '14 at 08:02

Oli

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answered Jul 23 '14 at 07:49

Nagarjuna Pamu

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you should be able to accept (mark) your own answer as the solution to close it out. – mchid Jul 23 '14 at 08:04

Unmet dependencies when installing openjdk 7 on arm v7 running ubuntu

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